Agostino Capponi is a Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at Columbia University, where he is also the founding director of the Columbia Center for Digital Finance and Technologies and a member of the Data Science Institute. His current research interests are in machine learning, financial technology, digital assets, market microstructure, and economic networks. His research has been recognized with the 2018 NSF CAREER award, a JP Morgan AI Research Faculty award, the UBRI Innovator award, and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers award (PECASE). His research has also been covered by various media outlets, including Bloomberg, the Financial Times, Vox, and Politico.  Agostino serves as an editor of Management Science in the Finance Department, co-editor of Mathematics and Financial Economics, and area editor of Operations Research. Agostino serves on the advisory board of GARP’s AI and Risk Program, and of the Global Risk Institute. Agostino is the former Chair of the SIAG/FME Activity Group and of the INFORMS Finance Section, and is currently a member of the Council of the Bachelier Finance Society. Agostino is co-editor of the book Machine Learning and Data Sciences for Financial Markets: A Guide to Contemporary Practices, published in 2023 by the Cambridge University press.

Lin William Cong is the Rudd Family Endowed Chair Professor of Management and Professor of Finance at the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, where he is the founding faculty director for the FinTech Initiative. He is also an Editor at the Management Science, an editorial board member for multiple leading academic and practitioner journals, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a senior fellow and founding track director at the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research, a faculty scientist at the Initiative for Cryptocurrencies & Contracts, a lead founder of multiple international research forums, and is formerly a Kauffman Foundation Junior Faculty Fellow, an UBRI Educator Awardee, a Poets & Quants 40 under 40 World Best Business School Professor, a 2022 Top 10 Quant Professor, a finance professor at the University of Chicago, and a George Shultz Scholar at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. As a world-leading scholar for AI, digital economics, and financial technology, he and his coauthors have pioneered the studies of blockchain economics, tokenomics, AI for Finance, etc. He has won numerous paper prizes and research grants, spoken at hundreds of world-renowned universities, venture funds, investment and trading shops, and central banks. He has also advised leading investment and FinTech and investment firms, and various government and regulatory agencies. Prof. Cong received his Ph.D. in Finance and MS in Statistics from Stanford University, and A.M. in Physics jointly with A.B. in Math and Physics, a minor in Economics, and a language certificate in French from Harvard University. 

Hanming Fang is the Norman C. Grosman Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, Professor of Health Care Management, and Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the Wharton School. He is a Fellow of Econometric Society. His main research areas are public economics, labor economics and the Chinese economy. He served as the Director of the Chinese Economy Working Group for the National Bureau of Economic Research (USA). He is a leader in applied microeconomics. He has a wide range of research interests and his research tends to combine theory with evidence. His research topics range from the theoretical and empirical methods of economics of discrimination, health insurance market, life insurance market and population aging. His research on health insurance market received the Kenneth Arrow Award for the best health economics research from the International Health Economics Association in 2010. He is an expert on the Chinese housing market, health care, population aging and political economy. He is a co-founder of VoxChina.

Prof. dr. Roger J. A. Laeven has been a Full Professor, holding the Chair of Mathematics and Economics of Risk, at the Department of Quantitative Economics of the University of Amsterdam since 2011. Furthermore, he has been a Visiting Research Professor at Princeton University, Bendheim Center for Finance, since 2007.

He serves as Editor of Insurance: Mathematics and Economics. He is the Director and Co-Founder of the Amsterdam Center of Excellence in Risk, Resilience and Regulation (AC3R).

Prof. Laeven's research spans the fields of Actuarial Science, Mathematical Finance, Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics, Financial Econometrics, Operations Research, and (Micro) Economic Theory, and has appeared in the top academic journals in all these fields (Ann. Stat.; Ann. Inst. Henri Poincaré Probab. Stat.; Bernoulli; Financ. Stoch.; Insurance Math. Econom.; J. Amer. Statist. Assoc.; J. Bus. Econ. Stat.; J. Econometrics; J. Econ. Theory; J. Financ. Econ.; J. Financ. Quant. Anal.; Manage Sci.; Math. Oper. Res.; Oper. Res.).

Among many other competitive awards and grants, he is a past recipient of the Christiaan Huygens Prize awarded by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and Veni, Vidi and Vici grants awarded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research.

Many of his (post)doctoral students have become university professors all around the world.

He has served two mandates as selected academic advisor to the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority's and currently serves as appointed member of the Board of Appeal of the Dispute Resolution Authority for Pension Funds.

Professor Sojung Carol Park is a distinguished academic at Seoul National University's College of Business. She holds a Ph.D. in Insurance and Risk Management from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and MS/BS in Industrial Engineering from Seoul National University.Her expertise encompasses insurance economics, the interplay between insurance and culture, Bonus-Malus Systems in auto insurance, financial consumer behavior, and Insurtech and Fintech strategies. Professor Park's research has been published in prestigious journals such as the Journal of Risk and Insurance, ASTIN Bulletin, and Insurance, Mathematics, and Economics. Beyond academia, she served in advisory roles for the Financial Services Commission and the Financial Supervisory Service of korea. Professor Park is affiliated with the American Risk and Insurance Association, Korean Insurance Academic Society, and Korean Risk Management Society.